Due Feb 06 - Our coats won't do up!

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Here it is then ladies - our shiny new thread, named without reference to jumpers, sweaters or cardis!!

Stats to begin - hope they're all up to date!

Teuch, Due 28th Jan, Baby # 1, Age 27, Lives West Lothian (Inner Hebridean Island from Jan), Surprise flavour, mm/c previously
Hotmama1, Due 1st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 38 (DP40), Lives Nottingham, Girl flavour,
3K, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 28, Lives Gravesend, Kent, Boy flavour, IVF conception
Tabs, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 32 (DH40), Lives N Herts, Couldn't see flavour, mm/c Oct 04
Kando, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 3, Age 32 (DH35), Lives Holland, Girl flavour, DVT last time. Heparin injections.
Lulu68, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 4, Age 37 (DH40), Lives ???, ?? flavour,
Yeahbut, Due 4th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Holland, Girl flavour, IUGR in previous pregnancies
Mimi5, Due 6th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 37, Lives ???, Boy flavour, mm/c previously
Popadopolis, Due 8th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 26 (DH30), Lives Bedford, Girl flavour, hyperemesis early on - tablets to control
JuA, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31, Lives Chorley, Lancs, Both Girl flavour, 1 m/c prior to DD. Expecting twins!!
SmallHouseDragon, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 39 (DH 37), Lives Devon, ?? flavour, induction then emerg c-sec with dd
Womba1, Due 10th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Eastbourne, Girl flavour, Baby 1 stillborn
TicTac, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 29 (DH 42), Lives Horwich, Lancs, Girl flavour,
Ixel , Due 11th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31 (DH 42), Lives North London, Hospital won't tell flavour,
Spacecadet, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 33 (DH 37), Lives Cambs, Girl flavour, m/c in March, underactive thyroid, dvt after delivery of last dd
Popmum, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32 (DH 40), Lives Broxbourne, Herts/Essex border, Secret flavour,
RachelRog, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 33, Lives Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Surprise flavour, mm/c in March
Chloe55, Due 13th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 24 (DH 27), Lives West Yorkshire, Boy flavour, 2 previous m/cs
Jasnem, Due 18th Feb, Baby # 3, Age , Lives , Surprise flavour, 5 and 6 yo girls already
MrsDoolittle, Due 21st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32, Lives Oxford, but soon to be Newbury, Boy flavour,
Morgan, Due 22nd Feb, Baby # 2, Age 37, Lives Hitchin, Dubai from Jan, Surprise flavour, Ectopic Jan 05. Heparin injections
Flamesparrow, Due 24th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 24, Lives Bournemouth, Surprise flavour, Waterbirth for no 1. Hoping for homebirth.
mum22soon, Due 24th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 26, Lives Eltham, South London, ?? flavour,
Frizbe, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 30 (DH40), Lives Ripley, Derbyshire, Girl flavour,
Thell, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 26, Lives London, Girl flavour,
angedemarche (Jangus), Due 1st March (c-sec 14th Feb), Baby # 2, Age 27, Lives NI, ?? flavour,
poppyh, Due 3rd March (c-sec earlier), Baby # 3, Age ??, Lives South East London, Girl flavour,
Scotsbird, Due ???, Baby # 2, Age ???, Lives ???, ?? flavour,

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Not weeing more either so dont think it is a UTI and MW checked my urine yesterday.

Hmmm 3k, ring midwife just in case, probably just baby sticking something somewhere akward! (SP) however my last lot of braxtons hurt hope thats not a sign of things to come....

Helen glad your feeling better now, for you and 3k I recommend bio oil, reduces outwards appearance of stretch marks, highly recommened by my friend who works in dermotology

Hotmama, 9 weeks to go then congrats on your dd's walking!

FS glad your feeling better also, congrats to dd on the poo in the potty, did you use any bribary? I'm thinking I might have to, was called upstairs last night by dd, who had taken off her PJ bottoms, nappy and left those by the potty, she had then proceeded to walk to the stair gate, leaving a trail of poo behind her, so she could call me and tell me what she was doing! ARGHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
between her and the cat my carpets will be ruined!

Chloe and Tictac (and all in fact) snow if forecast for Thurs! will that mean you guys get snowed in? we might, sometimes do, as just on the edge of the peaks!

Jasnem, grr at dh and the card, men eh!

hospital bag - lipsyl (gas and air can make you really dry)
camera
lavender oil ( some hospitals do supply it, but not all)
loose change and phone book
toiletries
clothes for youand baby
nappies and changing stuff (my hospital didn't supply much of anything)
books, puzzles, something to do if you are in longer than expected

You could use your mobile in part of the maternity ward at Derby last time, if that helps anyone!

tictac _ after you've had baby you probably won't care what's happening down below. You'll be so proud and impressed with your daughter, it makes all the other stuff less of a problem.

You couldonly use your mobile in the garden in Harlow - definitely not great in Feb. Check just in case!

Gosh I leave this site for 5 mins and look what happens!

3K those feelings you are describing sound like ligament stretching? The only way I can describe the BH is the feeling you get after a MASSIVE sunday lunch and that if someone stuck a pin in you our stomach would pop like a balloon, it also makes me a little out of breath too because I feel like all my organs are being squashed.

Ooooh snow for Thursday - I hope so! I love snow but most at my work try to be martyrs and therefore think that everyone else should drag themselves here whether it's blizzards or they are on their death beds. Sod 'em though, like you guys say I'd be daft to risk my life and baby's just to get to a place where they wouldn't appreciate the effort I had made to get in.

Where do you buy things like maternity pads? Are they just big sanitary towels or are they specially designed? Also what do you use the lavender oil for? Is it to inhale to create calm or do you use it on your body?

Maternity pads will be near sanitary pads in chemists/supermarkets, or with baby stuff. Also mothercare. Yes, they are like large san towels. Lovely

Lavender oilis good in the bath after birth. Encourages healing, and is slightly antiseptic. Also very relaxing. Mix 3-4drops with a little milk. Also safe to use when pregnant.

Chloe I'd recommend the super soaking always ultra pads, work just as well as maternity pads and have the nice dry top sheet too....(yuk tmi)

I have picked up the boots ultra thin ones this time, to give those a go, as the normal maternity pads are built like bricks, but who knows they may not do the trick? and I'm about the last due on the thread, so if you don't want to risk those I'd go for the normal bulky ones for the 1st few days.

I want snow.

Hope your pains are ok now 3k!!!

Frizbe - I gave her a pot of bubbles to play with while she sat on the potty . She always knows when she needs a poo (and goes and gets a nappy), so I knew it was coming, then it was just a case of trying to convince her to sit on the potty. There was lots of tears and cries of "NO! No Thankyou!!!" in an attempt to make the poo stop I wish I knew what had triggered this fear in the first place...

Maternity pads are very brick like i will just get normal super duper san towels, but am not going to think about anything like that till after christmas which is coming and i havent started yet!!!!! please don't tell me you are are ready and organised i don't think i could cope

Snow - whereabouts is it forecast - does it mean I can have a day off work?? DH is off to Edinburgh on Thursday for a conference - hope he doesn't get snowed in if I need him to get back.

Snow would be good

Ds2 would never poo on potty, liked toylut as he called it, is 4 now but still giggles at "plop" noises! boys are lovely!!!!!

I liked the big bulky tesco own maternity pads - I found them all nice and soft and padded against my tender bits

DD just hates pooing in general - she feels safest if she is stood up, so it doesn't really matter if it is potty or toilet.

The snow is supposed to be heavier in Scotland and the north, go on the BBC News website there is a little bit on there. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4457744.stm

As for maternity pads, I have bought the Sainsbury's ones, they are right by the baby milk, wipes etc

Oh, and Helen - I'm not getting anything sorted til after the new year - I'd only lose it . If anything were to happen before then, then DH will just have to go shopping!

bless her, is funny how they get a thing about something isn't it. We really want snow, my boys have not had a proper winter, bil moving to canada they get real snow cheap hols to canada for us soon!

I hate snow. I walk like an old lady when it's snowy anyway. I hate to think what I'll be like with the pregnant waddle as well. We probably won't get it down here anyway yet. I hope.

That's ok then thought i was the least organised woman in the world, well i think i might be to be honest, must start that christmas shopping soon

For some reason I've bought pads and those really tasteful disposable knickers, but almost nothing for the baby.
And no Christmas shopping either.

think baby got hiccups, so cute! off to do school run

I wasn't going to get the maternity knickers..I thought a load of cheap normal knickers would be ok? Am I being naive?
I have got everything for the baby I think but nothing for me...getting stuff for me is like admiting I am going to give birth...I told you...the birthing fairies are going to come and deal with all that for me!

We love the snow, I will love it more when I finish for mat leave. It snowed on Christmas day here last year...just seemed to make it all really special!

I liked the maternity knickers - they were soft, comfy, and I didn't feel bad about chucking them after only a few hours of wearing them when everything's leaked.

I've never bothered with disposable ones except for the huge bridget jones type ones the give in hospital when you have a c-sec lovely